Mark Jamison, director of the University of Florida’s Digital Markets Initiative, and UF postdoctoral candidate Peter Wang recently published a column at RealClearMarkets that highlights how technology companies have “created or refined systems for distance learning, teleworking, telemedicine, news dissemination, and e-commerce” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the report’s many findings, the authors discovered that 63 percent of students feel that the climate on their campus deters students from expressing themselves openly, up from 54 percent in 2016.
WGU Labs, Inc., an affiliate of the online nonprofit Western Governors University, has announced a new effort, the College Innovation Network, that will unite education thought leaders, EdTech innovators, and institutions that are focused on serving students who face the greatest economic challenges.
The National Association of System Heads (NASH) and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) recently announced a new partnership, Scaling Instructional Excellence for Student Success that will offer professors the resources to fill this gap. This new initiative focuses on improving instruction through a high-quality professional development for faculty.
An April 18 Associated Press headline reported that the racial toll of COVID-19 “grows even starker as more data emerges.” Researchers supported by the Charles Koch Foundation at the University of New Orleans (UNO) were some of the first to uncover this trend.
Edscoop recently highlighted OpenStax’s efforts to bring more tech tools online to accelerate and personalize education for college and university students.
Many scholars are working to make it easier to get access to government information by using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ensure openness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to several news reports, more than 90,000 health care professionals have traveled to New York to help deal with Gotham’s overwhelming number of COVID-19 patients. Tragically, the vast majority of these volunteers — all but 1,000 — reportedly are sitting idle while state officials work to process their applications to practice.
Two innovative educational organizations understand the daunting challenge professors face. And to help, both are now offering a suite of free tools and resources to support faculty and students.
Emergent Ventures, OpenStax, ACUE and numerous other CKF partners are demonstrating that people can do extraordinary things, especially when they come together in response to crisis and think innovatively to create solutions.
